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That is sad about his kid. At least Madoff put up smoke and mirrors to deflect heat from his family. If all this is true, these guys will likely see some prison time eventually. Nothin' like time in the pen and a little fudge packin' to help a man realize his mistakes.

Does this company not have a compliance officer or lawyers?!? If so, they "got some 'splainin to do" also. It amazes me that people think they can get away with this. This guy's obviously not the risk/reward guru he claims to be.

I think Rep. Conyers is just relieved he isn't going to have hear his hood-rat wife's big mouth once she's in jail. He's in a state of euphoria and doesn't have a care in the world. I loved Monica's booking photo -- you could just tell she was itchin' to open that big mouth! In this world, there are butterflies and cockroaches -- Monica is a cockroach.

Mae - You can get off your almighty horse now. You claim to open-minded, yet you assert that all conservatives fit nicely into a perfectly shaped slot your mind has created. I don't particularly care for Palin, but your reference to her as a whore is despicable. It's difficult to find a conservative who doesn't cringe in having to talk about Bush, Cheney, etc. - except for the far right nuts (which are no less crazy that the far left nuts). I won't even put Rush Limbaugh in the list because he's as irrelevant to reality as Olbermann and Pelosi. You see, they are all nutjobs incapable of seeing through the eyes of another. You seem to imply that you have this ability - try and use it to understand your self-declared nemisis, conservatives. Bush didn't destroy the economy, nor did he have the ability to protect us from 9/11, anymore than Clinton and his administration did. And I'm not saying that any of this is 100% Clinton's fault. There were short-comings all the way around the specturm of ideologies in the country that resulted in those issues, as simple as you make them out to appear. I believe Obama truly wants to fix the issues he is tackling -- I just personally think he's going a bit too quick, resulting in fiscal irresponsibility. The "stimulus" was irresponsible, and it's extremely difficult to oppose that. Yes, the economy is getting better, but this would have happened anyway. Only a small percentage of the "stimulus" monies have even been dispersed. I do fault Bush/Cheney for not approaching these issues - and when are we finally going to address social security...they could have gotten that ball rolling. I think Obama has a great vision, but the details are being derailed and distorted by Pelosi and those with her ideology. Looking through your eyes, I understand why your are angry -- I just think you have a distorted view of reality. By the way, not all conservatives seek out the Bible to answer every question, and not all of them are anti-abortion. You would be better served finding common ground with a concilliatory approach, than blasting out arrogant and irresponsible comments stereotyping all conservatives as fitting into your self-conceived narrow-minded pigeon hole. You are the one with the problem.

"Starting in the early 1990s," Rep. Barney Frank "(and other Democrats) stood athwart efforts by regulators, Congress and the White House to get the runaway housing market under control." It goes on to say in, "2002, Frank nixed reforms" of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and that in 2003, "led by Frank, Democrats stood as a bloc against any changes" that President Bush proposed making to Fannie and Freddie.

They could not just limit it to Ford and GM because this would have raised unfair trade practices issues. Our government is terrified of raising these issues for whatever reason, even though foreign countries (most notably China and South Korea) regularly engage in unfair trade practices. Although they are generally cutely disguised as something else, the effect is the same. I recall reading recently that China raised a big stink when the U.S. "stimulus" for infrastructure spending would be limited to projects involving certain percentages of U.S. raw materials. The U.S. caved in, and what did China do about a month later...they restricted stimulus funds for Chinese infrastructure that required certain percentages of Chinese raw materials. The U.S. filed an unfair trade practices protest which will effectively amount to nothing. Thanks Washington - you guys $uck!

A female pit bull/Labrador mix jumped a fence June 30 and mauled a poodle to death, New Baltimore Police Chief John Bolgar said.
A woman was walking two dogs on a leash at 5 p.m. June 30 on the 53000 block of Kirk Court when the pit bull jumped over the fence and attacked one of the poodles.
Both dog owners reported the incident to police.
The 45-year-old woman who was walking the dogs had minor cuts on her legs, Bolgar said.
The incident occurred at 5 p.m.
"When the woman came to the station she didn't realize she was bit," Bolgar said. "I have to believe she was more concerned about her dog's welfare than her own safety."
Police said the woman went to the hospital on her own.
Bolgar said the owner of the pit bull took her dog to the Macomb County Animal Shelter in Mount Clemens to have it quarantined while rabies records were procured. A person familiar with the case said it was likely the dog would then be euthanized.
Bolgar said he doesn't believe any charges will be filed against the pit bull owner. He said the dog was in a fenced yard but was not on a leash.
"We've never had any problems at that house in the past," Bolgar said. "This is a very unfortunate and very tragic situation for the family that suffered the loss of their pet."
Several cities have discussed in recent weeks to either ban or put restrictions on pit bull owners. Eastpointe is considering an ordinance regulating vicious dogs and Mount Clemens is considering a pit bull ordinance. The Warren City Council also is considering an ordinance regulating pit bulls.
In Warren, a 9-year-old cockapoo was mauled to death by a pit bull in March while the owner was walking it on 13 Mile Road.
An 11-month-old Eastpointe child was killed inside a home April 22 when he was mauled by the family pit bull. The animal was shot by the boy's father.
http://www.voicenews.com/stories/070809/loc_20090708008.shtml

Update: Pit bull owner says he took precautions to secure dogs before they fatally mauled dachshund, bit woman in Allendale Township
by Mary Ullmer | The Grand Rapids Press
Wednesday July 22, 2009, 5:34 AM
ALLENDALE TOWNSHIP -- Craig Lick had taken precautions to ensure his two American pit bull terriers would stay on his property. But the two dogs managed to escape Tuesday afternoon, biting an 18-year-old woman and fatally attacking the dachshund she was walking.
Lick installed a chain-link fence in the back of the ranch-style home on South Cedar Drive. with plenty of room for the dogs to roam. He added an electronic fencing system all around, even though the dogs were not allowed in front of the house.
It seemed he had done everything. But he did not count on his dogs escaping from inside the house by bursting through a front window with an air-conditioning unit.
"Obviously, I didn't," said Lick, 24.
Lick's 5-year-old dogs, Riddick and Diesel, charged through a window Tuesday afternoon after spotting a young woman walking her dachshund on the gravel road. Ashley Muir, 18, saw the animals rushing toward her and scooped up her dog, Peanutt.
The pit bulls wrestled the dog away from her and fatally attacked it.
The woman, who was visiting a friend nearby, was bitten while trying to shield her dog, said Lt. Lee Hoeksema of the Ottawa County Sheriff's Department.
Neighbors chased away the pit bulls, and the woman was treated at the scene, Hoeksema said.
Lick's 18-year-old cousins, Vincent Wydeck and Henry Owsiak, heard the screams from next door and rushed to help.
"When we got there, Diesel was just standing around and came right to us," Wydeck said. "Riddick was the one who attacked. He's the mean one. I'm just glad we got there when we did."
Neither Lick nor his mother, Debbie, who also lives at the residence, were home at the time.
"I was at work and my cousin called me," said Lick, an engineer at Paulstra CRC. "I came home right away."
Lick said he did not know the woman and did not speak with her because emotions were running high.
Lick's aunt, Julie Vanderwall, said the woman was visiting another cousin of Lick's.
"She just wanted to take her little dog for a walk, poor thing," Vanderwall said. "But to think, that could've been a child."
The future of Lick's dogs is uncertain.
He has been ordered to quarantine them for at least 10 days, Hoeksema said.
A hearing will be held to determine whether the dogs are deemed dangerous to the public.
"The dogs are doing OK, but they don't understand why they're locked up in the bedroom," said Lick, whose license plate on his black Corvette reads "PITBULS."
"I'm sorry for what happened to her dog and to her. I can't imagine," he said. "Our animals -- we have horses, dogs and cats -- mean everything to me. My dogs sleep with me."

Obama has a great vision for healthcare reform. Problem is the reform being proposed couldn't be further from his vision. These political ads are a joke - they never portray the truth regardless of what group puts them out.

It amazes me that the socialist and capitalist posters here seem to agree that there is a time for assistance (that doesn't go on forever), but the socialists cannot bring themselves to acknowledge that many (not all) are gaming the system. If you can bring yourself to acknowledge that there is a good amount of abuse, he11 the two groups are nearly on the same page!

If you feed a wild animal everyday, the wild animal shifts from self-reliance to reliance on you. This is different than taking an animal to the vet, nurturing it back to health, and releasing it back into the wild.

Goofy - Good point on the stigma issue. It used to involve food stamps, but now it's called a "P Card" or something like that, and looks just like a debit card. There should be a stigma attached to welfare - it's not a good thing for anyone (although it is necessary in some cases).

I sit in the audience and watch a lot of court cases, and it always amazes me that some people receiving public assistance will openly state that they don't believe they are on welfare. Some are under the impression that everyone receives what they receive (and then others get more by working, etc.). And then in the court cases, you have the single mothers, who consider their status and plight a badge of honor, and two to five kids, by two to five different fathers...and a live in boyfriend who fathered one of the kids and is living off the aid. I have nothing against single mothers, other than some of them made awful decisions just like their male partners -- my point is simply that this is a problem, and there needs to be more monitoring and the limits more strictly enforced. In Africa, the lazy lion dies - it's just not natural. I'm not saying those who are honest recipients should be left for dead, just that there must be motivation for productivity.

Teach put a beat down on Little Johnny! In all seriousness, it's good for kids to be aware of different views, whatever they are, so they can think about them and make their own decisions. Whatever the decision, the analysis itself is the most important aspect.

Our government is incapable of learning anything until, like a crack addict, the country hits rock bottom. One thing is for sure - Obama was handed a golden opportunty, and it is slipping away because of the excentric views of Pelosi & Co. Bush got the ball rolling with this mess by getting us into Iraq, and he has enabled the far left to put the kiss of death on this country's prosperity for the next several years with bad debt spending. Too much financing is going for 'a new dress and a diamond encrusted cell phone' instead of a 'new business opportunity.' BTW, for you dense whackjobs, those are metaphors.